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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 2h

something i'll point out for, uh, no reason whatsoever, is that fewer than 10% of current federal dems were serving as federal dems in 1994

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Kathleen @kathleencarson.bsky.social · 7h

Their obsessive homoeroticism is just so freaking weird.

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Kathleen @kathleencarson.bsky.social · 7h

A bunch of Boomers who became sexually active before HIV came on the scene and thus didn't sit through health class with the YOU ARE GOING TO DIE IF YOU HAVE SEX/DON'T PRACTICE SAFE SEX human sexuality unit. Once pregnancy is off the table, no worries.

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Kathleen @kathleencarson.bsky.social · 8h

At least one of thkse is supposed to be a dark color show it shows up as a constrat to the other team's white-based uniform on black-and-white TV.

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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 11h

We absolutely should be horrified by reports of planned public executions and see them as an overt re-embrace of spectacle lynchings--while also understanding that the story of the "modern" death penalty in this country is inextricable from that history, rooted in racial violence & white supremacy.

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Alabama’s Lynching Memorial and the Legacy of Racial Terror in the South

At the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama, the historical link between lynching and the death penalty is hard to miss.

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Kathleen @kathleencarson.bsky.social · 23h

4) Rebuilding the civil service

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Kathleen @kathleencarson.bsky.social · 23h

We cannot afford purity politics of disagreeing over the **finer points** of a healthcare plan or tax reform that is going to look entirely different if and when it and if it gets through Congress.

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Kathleen @kathleencarson.bsky.social · 23h

Oh, he's definitely running in '28. And I think policy priorities need to be: 1) SCOTUS reform 2) Accountability 3) Restoring rights Everything else is gravy.

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Kathleen @kathleencarson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

And there is a *big* difference between seizing the ballots before and after they are counted.

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Kathleen @kathleencarson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Ah, but he's actually a coward.

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Kathleen @kathleencarson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I understand why people were really frustrated with being told the economy was good in 2024. But, I worked in workforce development. There was so much opportunity and work to build on to really make substantial shifts. And people threw it all away because of some egg price-fixing and racism.

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Robert Westbrook, Aircraft & Accordion Repair @swampfoot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Saying you "held your nose" to vote for Biden is not a flex. Blaming Biden for Trump 2.0 is shifting blame from my fellow whites. If you think Biden was some kind of last-ditch second-to-worst-case scenario after living thru Trump 1.0, then you've been smoked by Russian propaganda.

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Kathleen @kathleencarson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

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Kathleen @kathleencarson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is really important to remember for the fraud accusations (the far more likely course of casting doubt on the validity of the results). If the counts for the down ballot races and initiatives is valid, the count for the federal races is likely good to.

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Kathleen @kathleencarson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I guess that is the other thing. Seizing the ballots to cast doubt on the count is very different from seizing the ballots to prevent their count.

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Kathleen @kathleencarson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

4) There are very few, if any, of these counties that have ballots with *just* federal elections. There are state and local races, ballot initiatives, propositions, bonds, and levies. So a lot of people have interests in making sure the vote is counted for *their* line on the ballot.

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Kathleen @kathleencarson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

3) And, in many of those places, the security around collected ballots is literally casino security robust. Multiple levels of verification, etc. to get to them.

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Kathleen @kathleencarson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

2) Many if not most of those key locations have early voting and mail-in voting. Which means there is not one point in time to intercept ballots or disrupt voting but a month or more of ballot collection and counting.

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Kathleen @kathleencarson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

1) We have ~3,000 counties independently administering elections. That is ~3,000 county election authorities to target and many, many more polling locations. Even targeting key ones takes a lot of goons.

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Kathleen @kathleencarson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Do I think Trump will try to direct physical interference in the elections? Yes. Do I think it will be effective? I don't know but there are several protective factors that I think we should be aware of in addition to making it too big to rig:

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Kathleen @kathleencarson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

States that have election-day, in-person only voting are the most vulnerable. But those are also the most red.

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Kathleen @kathleencarson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

And I know that the team that collect ballots drive rental vehicles, change who is driving with whom and who is picking up with boxes and alter their routes daily so they aren't readily predictable. Like it is a whole Oceans 11 kind of operation.

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Kathleen @kathleencarson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Riverside, CA? Okay, but they have to seize ballots over the course of a month. Ballots already went out. And I assume that Riverside's election center is like ours, which was designed by a casino security firm and it requires like 3 verification steps to even get access to the ballots.

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Kathleen @kathleencarson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Messing with the ballots and attempting to invalidate the elections doesn't just have implications for the federal elections and there are a lot of competing interests: people who may be aligned with Trump more generally but have a strong interest in the local election happening.

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Kathleen @kathleencarson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

One of the most protective things against this is that there is not just one race or even just federal races on the ballot. My ballot has 17 races and 3 statewide initiatives. Surrounding areas also have municipal props, school district and special purpose district bonds/levies

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Kathleen @kathleencarson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Even then, the count often happens onsite -- the scantron ballots and reader on site at the poll-- and transmitted to the county election authority separate from the physical ballots, which are retained for auditing and recount purposes.

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Kathleen @kathleencarson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The ballots don't go to your state capital, they go to your county election authority. In several states, they are being collected and counted for *weeks* so there isn't one point to seize them like in states where the polls are open on Tuesday and they all travel from polls to election authority.

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Kathleen @kathleencarson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Look, I am not saying there is no danger of *something* happening. But something *effective* is very small subset of something. They don't have enough goons to seize enough ballots in enough places. We don't just have elections in 50 states. We have elections administered by ~3,000 counties.

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Kathleen @kathleencarson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I agree. I was also thinking, a younger version of him is exactly who you'd cast as one of the frat bros in a movie abiut Cornell... so I can't say this is surprising.

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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

As a Catholic, like Alito, I think it's so important for you to know how little—how absolutely not at all—your marriage (or your LGBTQ identity) impacts my religious liberty. In fact, refusing to acknowledge your marriage (or your LGBTQ identity) is a grave affront to your innate human dignity.

abcnews.com

Alito calls same-sex marriage a 'decisive' turn 'against religious liberty' in new book

A new book by Justice Samuel Alito presents his view of the Constitution, the Supreme Court, and the country with a focus on religious freedom.

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Kathleen @kathleencarson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I don't even know the NATO alphabet!!! There are so many other w words—west, weather, wet, winter—that were not thesaurus words for tired and scared I only know W=whiskey because Whiskey Tango Foxtrot is WTF.

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Kathleen @kathleencarson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

You know the meme about people discovering the NATO alphabet is fixed, not whatever word you think of in the moment? I was on the receiving end of it yesterday: Them: Weary Me: ? T: Weary... wary Me: Are you okay? T: I'm sorry, I have an accent Me: That is absolutely not the problem. Whiskey

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Kathleen @kathleencarson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

*it is a SOCIAL obligation You've got to highlight that you are doing it in service of maintaining human relationships

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Kathleen @kathleencarson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

That is how I did the quasi-obligatory March Madness bracket: - How do I feel about the team's mascot/colors? - Do I have beef with that institution for any reason? - Do I have any sense that university has ever been good at basketball? I did terribly. But it was much more fun.

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SpryOldLorax @spryoldlorax.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Twenty-seven years ago this week, a 21-year-old college student named Matthew Shepard was found tied to a fence outside Laramie, Wyoming. He died six days later simply because he was gay. More of his story in the Alt-Text:

On October 6, 1998, Matt left a bar with two men who lured him out under false pretenses. They drove him to a remote area, brutally attacked him, robbed him, tied him to a fence, and left him alone in the freezing night.

Eighteen hours later, a cyclist found him - at first thinking he was a scarecrow.

Matt’s parents, Judy and Dennis Shepard, were overseas when they got the call. By the time they reached the hospital in Colorado, Matt was in a coma. He never regained consciousness. They never got to say goodbye.

Dennis once said Matt was almost too tender-hearted - the kind of person who couldn’t even step on a bug. Friends described him as a “light of joy,” someone who never met a stranger. The night he left that bar, he’d been planning an LGBTQ awareness event at his university.

Years later, Judy Shepard shared that she truly believed by now, things would be different - that people would be safe, equal, and accepted. “I am frustrated that we’re not done,” she said. “I am ecstatic that we have come this far. But there’s just so much left to do.”

And she’s right.

Hate crimes still happen. Basic rights are still being denied.

Let’s honor Matthew’s memory not only by remembering his story, but by continuing the work. By refusing to look away. By choosing compassion over hate, and courage over silence.

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Kathleen @kathleencarson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It amazes me that people still respond like this. Have they not seen so. many. people. get called out for "don't alienate your allies". It is a threat. It is part of the very dynamic at issue: Be nice to me, give me what I want, center my ego or I will enable violence against you.

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Kathleen @kathleencarson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

My FIL is not Southern Baptist proper but in the larger white evangelical subculture. I remember being absolutely gob smacked when he pretty bluntly articulated that because he was saved, what he did was good and justified.

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Kathleen @kathleencarson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

*not Morello specifically I do not know what happened there.

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Kathleen @kathleencarson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

*I am not even sure we would have had a 1st full blown war, even assuming that 9/11 or some other equivalent plot did happen.

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Kathleen @kathleencarson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

God, the early 2000 neocons 🤮 I was going to say that a Gore win would have possibly humbled them but they are incapable. But possibly taken the edge off their worst impulses. I just have a hard time believing that we could have gone into a 2nd* full blow war if the had to wait until 2005.

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Kathleen @kathleencarson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The OP did. Not the "not my responsibility" guy. At least I can still see the post I replied to.

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Kathleen @kathleencarson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

And Christian Zionism is the bigger, nastier brother of Jewish Zionism and where, in fact, the power and money actually lies in this country. It is a literal death cult that **you cannot** pressure, influence, or shame.

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Kathleen @kathleencarson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If it was just about the insufferable moral superiority... okay. I am a big girl. But I had these folks (more Morello specifically) call me a genocide supporter because I tried to explain Christian Zionism and how they would be in charge of ME policy in a Trump presidency.

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Kathleen @kathleencarson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

But there is a really good chance that 9/11 wouldn't have happened with Gore.

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Kathleen @kathleencarson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Of course. I am going with the butterfly theory. A lot of the fundamentals in 2004 would have been different if Gore had won in 2000. I don't know if anyone but Bush could have taken us into Iraq because no one else would have wanted to. Daddy issues.

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Kathleen @kathleencarson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Oh, 18 year old me is still angry about that. I lived in a swing state and almost fell for it but my dad said, it is going to be Bush or Gore, don't throw your vote away. Imagine a court without Roberts and Alito. Even it if it was Merrick Garlands, we would have Roe and not Kavanaugh stops.

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Kathleen @kathleencarson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

That exact same moral question and in good faith came to the inextricable conclusion that they had to vote for Harris. “You’ve got to fight the fascists every which way you can.” You know, except vote strategically for Tom.

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Kathleen @kathleencarson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

There are a million ways to deal with that question that re-orient it to a forward-facing and definitely not holier-than-thou. That's my problem with it. I am not even asking for a hairshirt and ashes (thought I think that is merited) just a little humility that other people looked at+

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